Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26

sons, Hophni ard Pniueas.
SECOND ERROR
prevalent in the training of children is
a laying u OF q theory and following ii
without arranging it to varieties of dis
position. In every family you will find
striking difference of temperament.
This child is too timid, and that too
bold, and this too misery, and that too
wasteful; that too inactive, and this
too boisterous. Now, the farmer who
should plant corn and wheat and tur-
nips in just the same way, then put
them through one hopper and grind
them in the same mill, would not be
SO much of q fool as the parents who
should attempt to discipline and edu-
cate all their children in the same man
ner. 1t needs a skillful hand TO adjust
these checks and balances. The rigid
ity of government which is necessary
to hold in this impetuous nature would
utterly crush that flexible disposition,
while the gentle reproof that would suf.
lice for the latter would, when used on
the former, be like attempting to hold
a champing Bucephalus with reins OF
gossamer. God gives Us in the dispo-
sition of each child Il hint rs to how
we ought to train him, and as God in
the mental structure Of our children
indicates what mode of training
is the best He also indicates in
the disposition their future occupation.
DO not write down that child rs dull
because it may not now be as brilliant
as your other children or as those of
your neighbor. Some Of the mightiest
men and women of the centuries had y
stupid childhood. Thomas Aquinas
was called at school 1.-The dumb OK"
but afterward demonstrated his sancti-
Fl ed genius and WAS called 1.-The angel
of the schools and 1.-the eagle of Brit
tany." Kindness and patience with a
child Will conquer almost anything,
and they are virtues so Christlike that
they are inspiring to look at. John
Wesley's kiss Of "a child on the pulpit
stairs turned Matthias Joyce from a
profigate into a flaming evangel.
TIE THIRD ERROR
prevalent in the training Of children is
the one-sided development Of either the
physical, intellectual or moral nature
at the expense Of the others. Those,
for instance, greatly mistake who,
while they are faithful in the intellect
ual and moral training Of children,
forget the physical. The bright eyes
half quenched by night study, the
cramped chest that comes from the
much bending owe school desks, the
weak side resulting from sedintariness
of habit, pale cheeks and the gaunt
bodies of multitudes of children attest
that physical development does not al
ways 60 along with intellectual and
moral. How DO you suppose AL those
treasures Of knowledge the child gets
look ia a shattered casketp And how
much will you give for the wealthiest
cargo when it is put into a leaky ship
How can that bright, sharp blade of a
child's attachments be welded without
any handler What are brains worth
without shoulders to carry themp
What is a child with magnificent mind
but an exhausted bodyp Better that a
young man of twenty-five go forth into
the world without knowing A from Il
if he have health of body and energy
to push his way through the world than
at twenty-one to enter upon active life,
his head stuffed with Socrates, and
Herodotus, and Bacon, and La Place,
h,t M nhupi,ol fnrnn 20 eYgNoip HIM -,
the shock of earthly conflicts. From
this infinite blunder of parents how
many have come out in life with a gen.
ius that could have piled Ossa upon
Pelion and mounted upon them to scale
the heavens, and have laid down pant
ing with physical exhaustion before a
mole hill. They who might have
thrilled senates and marshalled armies
and startled the world with the shock
Of their scientific batteries, have passed
their lives IN picking up prescriptions
for indigestion. They owned all the
thunderbolts of Jupiter, but could not
get out OF their rocking chair to use
them. George Washington in early
life was a poor speller, and spelled hat
h~-a-double-t and a ream of paper he
spelled "rheam," but he knew enough
to spell out the independence Of this
country from foreign oppression. The
knowledge of the schools is important,
but there are other things quite as i'm
portant.
C~ULTIvATR II HEART ALSO.
Just as great is the wrong done when
the mind is cultivated and the heart
neglected. The youth Of this LAY are
seldom denied any scholarly attain
nents. Our schools and seminaries
are eve growing in efficiency, and the
students are conducted through the
realms Of philosophy, and art, and Ian
guage, and mathematics. The most
hereditary obtuseness gives way before
the onslaught Of adroit instructors.
But there is q development of infinite
Importance which mathematics and the
dead languages cannot affect. The
more mental power the more capacity
for evil unless coupled with religious
restraint. You discover what terrible
power for evil unsanctified genius pos
sesses when you see Scaliger with his
scathing denuncIations a~ssaulting the
best men of his time, and Blount,
and Spinoza, and Bolingbroke lead
ing their hosts Of followers into
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